Google · image model · Released Oct 15, 2024Imagen 3
Imagen 3 is an image model from Google, released Oct 15, 2024. It handles text to image.
- Arena score
- 1,057#65 of 82 · text to image
- Starting price
- $0.04per image · standard
- Largest size
- —Not published
- References
- —Text prompts only
How it rates and what it costs
- Text to image arena
- 1,057 ±3#65 of 82 · 359,756 votes
Arena scores come from blind, side-by-side human votes on the same prompts (higher is better; ± is the 95% range). Boards updated Oct 26, 2026.
Listed prices
- standard
- $0.04/image
Specs and prices checked Nov 2, 2026: Google Cloud Vertex AI pricing . Labs change prices often.
The details
- Lab
- Type
- Image model
- Released
- Oct 15, 2024
- Inputs
- Text prompts
- Output
- Images
- Can do
- Text to image
- Weights
- Proprietary
- Availability
- 1 API host
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About Imagen 3
How good is Imagen 3?
In blind side-by-side votes, Imagen 3 scores 1,057 for text to image (#65 of 82). Higher is better; scores within about 6 points of each other are effectively tied.
Who makes Imagen 3?
Imagen 3 is an image model from Google, released Oct 15, 2024.
What can Imagen 3 do?
Imagen 3 accepts text prompts and produces images. In practice: text to image.
Is Imagen 3 open source?
No. Imagen 3 is proprietary; you use it through an API or partner apps.
Where can I use Imagen 3?
It is listed by 1 API host we track.
How much does Imagen 3 cost?
Imagen 3 costs from $0.04/image (standard). Prices checked Nov 2, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Imagen 3?
The closest image models from other labs, by release date, are Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large (Stability AI, Oct 22, 2024), FLUX1.1 [pro] (Black Forest Labs, Oct 2, 2024), Recraft V3 (Recraft, Oct 30, 2024) and Ideogram v2 (Ideogram, Aug 21, 2024).